Live Theatre’s 2018 Bursary winners

Published: 30 June 2018
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Top: Matthew Greenhough, Adam Hughes, Charlotte Josephine. Bottom: Ashleigh Nugent, Cameron Sharp, Jake Jarrett

Every year, Newcastle’s Live Theatre offers bursaries of £2,000 to support innovative approaches to text-based theatre making, for outstanding, imaginative, theatrical ideas which say something new and unexpected.

Bursary winners receive dramaturgical and producing support, space for R&D and rehearsals and the opportunity to have their work performed at Live Theatre, often as part of Elevator Festival. Bursary winners are selected through an open call-out launched in spring each year.

This year’s winners are:

  • Matthew Greenhough for It'll be Alt-Right On the Night

    Matthew Greenhough is the creative director of Wound Up Theatre, formed in Newcastle in 2013, now based between London and the North. Wound Up's latest production was a restaging of their 2015 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award listed show: Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy. The show, which he wrote and performed, was highly commended during its sell-out run at the VAULT Festival 2018, and then transferred to The Pleasance, Islington, for three weeks. Bismillah! will tour nationally in the autumn.

  • Adam Hughes for West End Girls

    Adam Hughes is Playwright-on-Attachment at the Finborough Theatre and a FUSE Playwright at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. He is a past recipient of the OffWestEnd Adopt a Playwright Award and was recently invited onto the BBC Writersroom Shadow Scheme. Previous credits include Beeston (Finborough Theatre), Young Girl (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Login Error (Southwark Playhouse) and Marching On Together (Old Red Lion Theatre).

  • Charlotte Josephine

    Charlotte Josephine is an actress and writer. Graduate of the Contemporary Theatre Course, East 15 Acting School, she’s co-artistic director of Snuff Box Theatre. Charlotte wrote and performed Bitch Boxer, which won the Soho Theatre Young Writers Award 2012, the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012 and the Holden Street Theatres Award 2013. Her latest play Blush sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016, winning a Stage Edinburgh Award. She is currently under commission at BBC Films and playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at the RSC.

  • Ashleigh Nugent

    Much of Ash Nugent’s work as is inspired by his own journey, including a past criminal lifestyle. Locks Live tells the story of the time he spent his seventeenth birthday in a Jamaican prison. Locks, the memoir, won the 2013 Commonword Memoir Competition and reached the final of Writing on the Wall’s 2014 Pulp Idol competition. Locks Live has won financial and developmental support from SLATE / Eclipse Theatre. He is also a director at RiseUp CiC, where he works to support prisoners and inspire change.

  • Cameron Sharp & Jake Jarrett

    Cameron Sharp is a North East based queer performance artist, theatre maker, and co-founder of theatre company Bonnie and The Bonnettes. His work is largely influenced by storytelling, identities, gender, sexuality, and all things that sparkle.

    Jake Jarrett creates work that engages audiences in themes that explore identity and community structures. Coming from a working-class background, Jake seeks to incorporate this into his work to engage a variation of audiences.

    Both studied on the MA Theatre and Performance degree at Northumbria University but this is the first show the duo have worked on together. With this project they want to question how do two young men from similar working class communities end up as two different people and to explore how they have come to be the people they are today and how their different journeys have respectively bought them to this one space in time.

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